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Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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Isn't authoritarianism the default type of government humans gravitate towards because there's always some dumbass who wants to be king or emperor and they somehow pull it off?
Because the rich promise to lift a specific subset of people out of the muck, in exchange for that specific subset allowing them to rule and to keep the rest of the population far from their golden thrones. Capitalism has always been the fault, greed has always been the motivating factor.
People need to stop thinking that their life is any more important than their neighbor’s and start thinking that we’re all in it together and we should all enjoy the time we’ve got as best as we all possibly can. From king to peasant, from president to street rat we are all the same and should all be treated equally. How we can have billionaires and millionaires when someone will die homeless from hypothermia is beyond me. It’s not an individual responsibility either, that should be the goal of a good government; that all its citizens have in abundance and it should also be the goal of world leadership that nations work collectively to make sure that every citizen of every nation has in abundance.
Instead we have dragons laying atop golden mountains
I read a while ago that capitalism is cancer but industrialization isn't. I think I see what you mean. Being driven by profit caused our well being to diminish to critical levels